{"id":26117,"date":"2016-05-27T16:31:39","date_gmt":"2016-05-27T23:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/archaeologists-think-theyve-found-aristotles-tomb"},"modified":"2017-04-24T20:43:30","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T03:43:30","slug":"archaeologists-think-theyve-found-aristotles-tomb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/archaeologists-think-theyve-found-aristotles-tomb","title":{"rendered":"Archaeologists think they\u2019ve found Aristotle\u2019s tomb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/archaeologists-think-theyve-found-aristotles-tomb.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nearly 2,400 years after his death, archaeologists believe they\u2019ve finally found the tomb of Aristotle. Researchers made the discovery during a 20-year dig in the ancient Greek city of Stagira, reports <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/articles\/some-archaeologists-in-greece-think-they-found-aristotles-tomb\" target=\"_blank\">Atlas Obscura<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Aristotle was born there in 384 BC, but he died in a different city, Chalcis, about 50 miles north of Athens. Literary sources mention that Aristotle\u2019s remains were moved to Stagira after his death, but his burial site has been a topic of debate for many years, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.com\/happy-birthday-aristotle-ancient-tomb-found-stagira-world-celebrates-greek-2374631\" target=\"_blank\"><i>International Business Times<\/i><\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>The tomb in Stagira believed to be the philosopher\u2019s is a 32-foot-tall dome with a marble floor and views of the entire city. \u201cThe thing is, the archaeologist data is in fine accordance with historical sources,\u201d archaeologist Konstantinos Sismanidis tells <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2016\/05\/27\/europe\/greece-aristotle-tomb\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">CNN<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/science\/2016\/05\/27\/archaeologists-think-theyve-found-aristotle-tomb.html\">http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/science\/2016\/05\/27\/archaeologists-thi...-tomb.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 2,400 years after his death, archaeologists believe they\u2019ve finally found the tomb of Aristotle. Researchers made the discovery during a 20-year dig in the ancient Greek city of Stagira, reports Atlas Obscura. Aristotle was born there in 384 BC, but he died in a different city, Chalcis, about 50 miles north of Athens. Literary [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26117"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50389,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26117\/revisions\/50389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}